FORTY lucky teenage boys from Penang's SMKA (L)Al-Mashoor recently participated in a four-day professiona-lism advancement programme for cluster schools that took them overseas to Medan and Acheh in Indonesia.

PETALING JAYA: FlyFirefly Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned unit of Malaysia Airlines (MAS), hopes to fly at least three times daily to Singapore once the route is approved by the respective governments, said managing director Eddy Leong.

AIR travel is extremely unkind to the climate, no thanks to the aviation fuel used to power jets. A single long haul flight can emit more carbon per passenger than months of SUV driving, with 3.15kg of carbon dioxide emitted for every kilogramme of fuel burnt.

IF she had been delayed three minutes longer, Noor Asyikin Mohamad Zamri would have missed the bus leaving from her school in Sitiawan to Penang for the Star Education Fair 2009 and she would not have won the grand prize of a Philips hi-fi system in the fair's Spin & Win contest.